Dan disciplines D.J. for taking offensive reading material to school - Darlene's comic book. Dan reacts strongly when Roseanne discovers that Fisher has beaten Jackie.
s05e01 - Terms of Estrangement (1)
s05e02 - Terms of Estrangement (2)
s05e03 - The Dark Ages
s05e04 - Mommy Nearest
s05e05 - Pretty in Black
s05e06 - Looking for Loans in All the Wrong Places
s05e07 - Halloween IV
s05e08 - Ladies' Choice
s05e09 - Stand on Your Man
s05e10 - Good Girls, Bad Girls
s05e11 - Of Ice and Men
s05e12 - No Place Like Home for the Holidays
s05e13 - Crime and Punishment (1)
s05e14 - War and Peace (2)
s05e15 - Lanford Daze
s05e16 - Wait 'Til Your Father Gets Home
s05e17 - First Cousin, Twice Removed
s05e18 - Lose a Job, Winnebago
s05e19 - It's a Boy!
s05e20 - It was Twenty Years Ago Today
s05e21 - Playing with Matches
s05e22 - Promises, Promises
s05e23 - Glengarry, Glen Rosey
s05e24 - Tooth or Consequences
s05e25 - Daughters and Other Strangers
The show portrayed a working-class family struggling to get by on a limited income in the fictional town of Lanford, Illinois. Many critics considered the show notable as one of the first sitcoms to portray an American family in which economics necessitated two parents working jobs outside the home.